public, promotes uniform laws and regulations,
and recommends solutions to problems relating to
stream pollution and the use and conservation of
water and associated land resources in the Dis-
trict. The Commission's Cooperative Water
Supply Operations Section (CO-OP) provides
technical and managerial services for coordinated
drought-related operations of the major Mary-
land, Virginia, and District of Columbia public
water supply utilities in the Washington Metro-
politan Area under the Water Supply Coordina-
tion Agreement of July 22, 1982.

The Commission is composed of representatives
of the five signatory members: Maryland, Penn-
sylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District
of Columbia. While the United States government
is a member of the Commission, it is not a signa-
tory member. The representatives from Maryland
include the Governor and two residents of the Po-
tomac Valley Conservancy District, who are ap-
pointed by the Governor for two-year terms.

The Commission is financed by appropriations
from each of the participating bodies (Code Natu-
ral Resources Article, sec. 8-301).

Monthly, the Commission issues a newsletter,
The Potomac Basin Reporter. Other technical and
general information reports are also available to
the public.

POTOMAC RIVER FISHERIES
COMMISSION

Maryland representatives: Verna E. Harrison;
John T. Parran, 1989; Francis J. Russell, 1989.

Kirby A. Carpenter, Executive Secretary

P.O. Box 9
222 Taylor St.
Colonial Beach, Va. 22443
Telephone: (804) 224-7148

The Potomac River Fisheries Commission oper-
ates under the Maryland-Virginia Compact of
1958, which was authorized by an Act of Con-
gress. Maryland ratified the Compact in 1959
(Chapter 269, Acts of 1959). The Commission is a
semiautonomous agency, but its work and policies
are closely coordinated with the Tidewater Ad-
ministration of the Maryland Department of Nat-
ural Resources and the Marine Resources Com-
mission of Virginia. The interstate Commission is
responsible for the establishment and maintenance
of a program of conservation and improvement of

the seafood resources of the Potomac River and
the regulation and licensing of fisheries in the Po-
tomac River.

The fisheries departments of both states provide
law enforcement on the Potomac River for the
Commission.

Since 1965, the Commission has regulated and
licensed the dredging of soft shell clams.

Each state annually appropriates $150,000 to
the work of the Commission. In addition, the
Commission receives proceeds from the sale of
commercial crab, oyster, fish and clam licenses,
and fifty cents per bushel oyster inspection tax.

The Commission consists of six members, three
from each state. The Maryland membership in-
cludes the Secretary of Natural Resources (or des-
ignee), and two persons appointed to four-year
terms by the Governor. The position of chairper-
son of the Commission alternates annually be-
tween Maryland and Virginia (Code Natural Re-
sources Article, sec. 4-306).

SOUTHERN REGIONAL EDUCATION
BOARD

Maryland representatives: William Donald
Schaefer, Governor, 1991; Rhoda M. Dorsey,
1987; John S. Toll, 1988; Sheldon H. Knorr,
1989; Arthur Donnan, 1990.

Dr. Winfred L. Godwin, President

592 Tenth St., N.W.
Atlanta, Ga. 30318-5790
Telephone: (404) 875-9211

c/o State Board for Higher Education
16 Francis St.
Annapolis 21401 Telephone: 974-2971

The Southern Regional Education Board is the
nation's oldest interstate compact for higher edu-
cation and a pioneer in regional planning action
for the effective multi-state use of educational pro-
grams and facilities. The Board operates under
the terms of the Southern Regional Education
Compact of 1949, which the Maryland legislature
ratified in 1949 (Chapter 282, Acts of 1949).
Fourteen other states have ratified the Compact:
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ok-
lahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vir-
ginia, and West Virginia. Created at the request of
southern governors, the Board brings together ed-
ucators, government officials, and other regional